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Philip Larkin Quote: “Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.”

51. “Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.”

— Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin Quote: “Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.”

52. “Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.”

— Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin Quote: “I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not only when he’s written it but a couple of weeks later. Then he should see if it pleases anyone else, by sending it to the kind of magazine he likes reading.”

53. “I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not only when he’s written it but a couple of weeks later. Then he should see if it pleases anyone else, by sending it to the kind of magazine he likes reading.”

— Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin Quote: “I almost never go out. I suppose everyone tries to ignore the passing of time: some people by doing a lot, being in California one year and Japan the next; or there’s my way – making every day and every year exactly the same. Probably neither works.”

54. “I almost never go out. I suppose everyone tries to ignore the passing of time: some people by doing a lot, being in California one year and Japan the next; or there’s my way – making every day and every year exactly the same. Probably neither works.”

— Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin Quote: “Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.”

55. “Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.”

— Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin Quote: “In everyone there sleeps a sense of life lived according to love.”

56. “In everyone there sleeps a sense of life lived according to love.”

— Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin Quote: “You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen and Wagner, and things that seemed crazy when they were new and seem crazy now, like ‘Finnegans Wake’ and Picasso.”

57. “You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen and Wagner, and things that seemed crazy when they were new and seem crazy now, like ‘Finnegans Wake’ and Picasso.”

— Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin Quote: “Saki says that youth is like hors d’oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don’t notice it. When you’ve had them, you wish you’d had more hors d’oeuvres.”

58. “Saki says that youth is like hors d’oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don’t notice it. When you’ve had them, you wish you’d had more hors d’oeuvres.”

— Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin Quote: “Death is no different whined at than withstood.”

59. “Death is no different whined at than withstood.”

— Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin Quote: “I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in.”

60. “I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in.”

— Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin Quote: “Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.”

61. “Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.”

— Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin Quote: “It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.”

62. “It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.”

— Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin Quote: “To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.”

63. “To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.”

— Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin Quote: “Men whose first coronary is coming like Christmas; who drift, loaded helplessly with commitments and obligations and necessary observances, into the darkening avenues of age and incapacity, deserted by everything that once made life sweet. These I have tried to remind of the excitement of jazz and tell where it may still be found.”

64. “Men whose first coronary is coming like Christmas; who drift, loaded helplessly with commitments and obligations and necessary observances, into the darkening avenues of age and incapacity, deserted by everything that once made life sweet. These I have tried to remind of the excitement of jazz and tell where it may still be found.”

— Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin Quote: “Only the young can be alone freely. The time is shorter now for company, And sitting by a lamp more often brings Not peace, but other things.”

65. “Only the young can be alone freely. The time is shorter now for company, And sitting by a lamp more often brings Not peace, but other things.”

— Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin Quote: “I have wished you something None of the others would...”

66. “I have wished you something None of the others would...”

— Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin Quote: “One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.”

67. “One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.”

— Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin Quote: “A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him.”

68. “A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him.”

— Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin Quote: “I am always trying to ‘preserve’ things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.”

69. “I am always trying to ‘preserve’ things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.”

— Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin Quote: “A very crude difference between novels and poetry is that novels are about other people and poetry is about yourself.”

70. “A very crude difference between novels and poetry is that novels are about other people and poetry is about yourself.”

— Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin Quote: “What one writes is based so much on the kind of person one is, the kind of environment one has had and has now. One doesn’t really choose the poetry one writes, one writes the kind of poetry one has to write, or one can write.”

71. “What one writes is based so much on the kind of person one is, the kind of environment one has had and has now. One doesn’t really choose the poetry one writes, one writes the kind of poetry one has to write, or one can write.”

— Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin Quote: “In life, as in art, talking vitiates doing.”

72. “In life, as in art, talking vitiates doing.”

— Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin Quote: “The sight of the money depressed her, because in such small familiar things the foreign country around her was best expressed.”

73. “The sight of the money depressed her, because in such small familiar things the foreign country around her was best expressed.”

— Philip Larkin

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